You guys are going off on all kinds of tangents here...
The fact remains that I've got a tractor that broke in half while using the factory installed loader to lift snow. I wasn't pushing trees. I wasn't crashing. I wasn't going full speed with a load in the bucket. I was using the tractor in a way that most reasonable tractor owners/operators would think that a tractor should be more than capible of withstanding.
[[[In my humble opinion, lifting a little snow should not be able to break the engine. I've lifted much heavier things with it.
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Still waiting. It's at the dealer while they try to figure out how to prevent me from being bent over trying to fix a 300 hour old tractor with a broken engine block.